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The Bali Diary: Wedding Day, Part 1

The Bali Diary: Wedding Day, Part 1

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day […]

April 5, 2014 7
The Bali Diary: Shaky Ground

The Bali Diary: Shaky Ground

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

March 30, 2014 3
Bali Diary: Fields of Dream

Bali Diary: Fields of Dream

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

March 22, 2014 9
The Bali Diary: Day 1

The Bali Diary: Day 1

We stepped out of the airport and into the first fresh air we’d inhaled in forty-seven hours. Hot and humid, […]

March 19, 2014 21
Anguilla: AXA Then & Today

Anguilla: AXA Then & Today

On my first date with Chris, we met at a little restaurant in downtown Chicago. It was a sunny day […]

January 18, 2014 26
Polebridge, MT: Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

Polebridge, MT: Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

No doubt about it. The weather outside is frightful. The National Weather Service is calling for a windchill of -52 […]

December 7, 2013 15
Polebridge, MT: Frost-n-Squash

Polebridge, MT: Frost-n-Squash

The glass of water on my bedside table hasn’t frozen. Yet. But the evening mist now leaves frosty geometric patterns across […]

October 18, 2013 8
Polebridge, MT: What We Did This Summer

Polebridge, MT: What We Did This Summer

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the […]

September 17, 2013 17
Polebridge, MT: The Grasshopper and the Godfather

Polebridge, MT: The Grasshopper and the Godfather

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. —Don Corleone, The Godfather: Part III Here at the yurt there’s always a […]

August 20, 2013 9
Polebridge, MT: Sodbustin’

Polebridge, MT: Sodbustin’

If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. —Thich Nhat Hanh In the two years that […]

July 18, 2013 13
Polebridge, MT: Moving Day

Polebridge, MT: Moving Day

Here come the earth movers; They’re coming to take it away. Topsoil, spruce, stumps, and weeds; Oh how we’ve pined […]

July 1, 2013 2
Polebridge, MT: The Bare Necessities

Polebridge, MT: The Bare Necessities

Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]

June 7, 2013 9
Ireland: Escape to the Emerald Isle

Ireland: Escape to the Emerald Isle

First of all, let me begin by pointing out a change in our blog’s subtitle. As you can see, it […]

May 20, 2013 3
Polebridge, MT: The Welcoming Committee

Polebridge, MT: The Welcoming Committee

After four months in Italy, we’ve finally returned to the yurt. If our first trip out to the property is […]

March 25, 2013 15
Polebridge, MT: We’ve Moved! (For Now)

Polebridge, MT: We’ve Moved! (For Now)

As you might have guessed, living in a yurt without running water in freezing temperatures is bearable for only so […]

November 21, 2012 2
Polebridge, MT: An Arborophile Copes with Dendromania

Polebridge, MT: An Arborophile Copes with Dendromania

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, […]

November 9, 2012 9
Polebridge, MT: Pride Goeth Before the Fall

Polebridge, MT: Pride Goeth Before the Fall

I’m glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. —Chris G. Fall is here. The tourists are gone, the […]

October 15, 2012 4
Polebridge, MT: Under the Dome Alone

Polebridge, MT: Under the Dome Alone

“Oh no, don’t do that,” my mom said when I called to tell her that I’d be staying at the […]

September 14, 2012 7
Polebridge, MT: All the Pretty Gills

Polebridge, MT: All the Pretty Gills

Fly fishing for trout: for me it’s not about catching a lot of, or big, fish. It’s about so much […]

August 25, 2012 3
Polebridge, MT: Butter-and-eggs

Polebridge, MT: Butter-and-eggs

Flowers are the earth laughing.  —Ralph Waldo Emerson As the undisputed “Crown of the Continent,” Glacier National Park is grand, […]

August 6, 2012 5

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The Home of My Heart

The Home of My Heart

“Home is where the heart is.” It’s such a well-worn expression we hardly think of what it means anymore. Some say that Pliny the Elder was the first to utter these words nearly 2,000 years ago, and that when he did he said “hearth,” not “heart.” But no matter. The two are one in the […]

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The Birds

The Birds

It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks ago was not the one we came back to. It had been transmogrified into a Hitchcock movie set. We stood by the Expedition, suitcases in hand, and watched as a squadron of swallows circled overhead, […]

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